Ethereum Was The Most Coin-Correlated Crypto In 2019

A new research in the latest cryptocurrencies news shows that Ethereum was the most correlated cryptocurrency to the other coins in the market in 2019. As the report created by the research arm of the major cryptocurrency exchange Binance outlined on January 22, throughout 2019 ETH had an average correlation coefficient of 0.69.

The paper also compared correlation data of 20 top cryptocurrencies and read the following:

“Ether (ETH) is the highest correlated asset. With an average correlation coefficient of 0.69 throughout 2019, it is consistently among the most correlated assets. The coefficient started at 0.69 in Q1 and rose to 0.72 in Q4 (Q2: 0.65; Q3: 0.74).”

Ethereum was the most correlated coin and according to the report, it was much less correlated in the first half of 2019 compared to the second half. The second half was when it became the most correlated, and the paper points out that NEO and EOS which are described as the “programmable blockchains” often showed higher correlations with each other rather than with the non-programmable assets.

The ETH news, however, are not the only topic of this report. Many other assets have been researched and have shown a high correlation with the rest of the market. These include Cardano (ADA), EOS (EOS), Litecoin (LTC), Ripple (XRP) and Binance Coin (BNB). Additionally, the researchers observed that correlation is higher among cryptocurrencies with higher market caps.

Ethereum was the most correlated but the assets with the lowest correlation to the rest of the market were Cosmos (ATOM) with a correlation of 0.31, Chainlink (LINK) and Tezos (XTZ) which both scored 0.32 and 0.4, respectively. Overall, the median correlation between large cryptocurrencies decreased over the last quarter of 2019.

Another very interesting thing was “the Binance Effect” which refers to the fact that the cryptocurrencies listed on Binance displayed higher correlations than the ones which are not present on the exchange. The firm’s research shows that among the top ten cryptocurrencies by market cap we can also see Binance Coin (BNB) with higher returns than expected.

All in all, the correlation between cryptocurrencies is definitely a topic which is growing in terms of awareness by users – but also a subject to debate. For instance, new data shows that BTC is less correlated to gold than many believe it to be – and the opinions on the market are split.